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Yes, people working in a business are all go-getters who are definitely not just there for the paycheck like those smelly public workers. Everything you listed
by rtpg 5y ago
Yes, people working in a business are all go-getters who are definitely not just there for the paycheck like those smelly public workers.
Everything you listed could apply in both directions (you think companies don't have incentives to push down worker wages to poverty wages? You think that motivates workers to actually provide good service?) And no, companies (especially larger ones) aren't sitting around thinking about how to make products cheaper for the end user. They're thinking about how to increase their own profits! No capitalist is like "wow I really wish I could offer this at cost".
Incentive structures exist in all places, this is why you can have things like public support for teacher's strikes, tax increases, etc. Because people actually think about this stuff holistically and don't just rely on trite platitudes that they heard from their local libertarian and projecting their own selfishness on everyone else.
- nine_k 5y agoEmployees may be there for the check only in either case. The top brass, though, have distinctly different incentives, and this influences how they motivate line workers, and how they structure the service. BTW large incumbent corporations suffer often from the same disease, because, like with the government, their clients have no effective choice anyway, no need to woo them. With teachers it's a bit special: just making the conscious effort to become a teacher is a rather strong filter. Similar with librarians, for instance. This is not the same for most governmental clerical services.